Using Cold War Era Rockets to Launch Satellites

On October 8th, the European Space Agency (ESA), will launch the CryoStat satellite to measure thickness trends in marine ice cover and land ice sheets over the Earth's poles. CryoStat will lift off from Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome, atop a SS-19 rocket. The SS-19s were manufactured by the Soviet Union between the mid 1970s and 80s to deliver nuclear payloads.

I think we can all agree this is a better use for them.